[SWLUG] Changing to a new distro

[Justin Mitchell]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:23 +0000, Neil Jones wrote:
> I am currently using suse 9. I have my disk partitioned so that /home is
> on a separate partition.
> 
> I am looking to upgrade to another distro. I was possibly thinking of
> Fedora 5. 
current version is FC 6

> I have 3 hard disks. One legacy  win98 that I hardly use and 1 linux.
> The third is a linux for back up.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice they can give me about the following.
> How do I, if possible, avoid overwriting the /home partition when I
> upgrade? Will this cause problems?

choose to manually partition, then tell the partition editor which one
of your partitions is currently holding /home and dont tick the box to
format it.

it will then just leave it alone, but mount it in the system when done.